Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 255 Leg.] YEAS--81 Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Casey Chambliss Coats Collins Coons Cornyn Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--13 Carper Coburn Corker Cruz Flake Johnson (WI) Lee McCain Paul Portman Rubio Scott Sessions NOT VOTING--6 Alexander Cochran Hagan Harkin Roberts Schatz The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion to recede from the Senate amendment to H.R. 5021 is agreed to. ____________________”